Bed end



Nov. 1,- 1932.-y R. J. ELLswoRTH 1,886,000

BED END Original` Filed April 28, 1927 2 Sheet-s-Sheegr. 1

i @iA-6 R. J. ELLSWORTH BED END original Filed 'April 28, 1927 2Sheets-Sheet 2 50: frame, having required a relatively deep clos-Patented Nov. 1, 1932 UNTED STTES Partnr v OFFICE ROSS J'. ELLSWORTH, OFWOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB. TO HOLMES DISAPPEARING BED COMPANY, FWOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS, A' CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS BED END Originalapplication led April 28, 1927, Serial No. 187,391. Divided and thisapplication led May 1, 1930.

Serial No. 448,827.

This invention relates to disappearing or concealed beds of the typegenerally designated as recess beds, wherein the bed, when folded orelevated, is positioned in a wall recess or closet and when lowered orunfolded is located for use in the body of a room, and is a division ofApplication, Serial No. 187,391, filed April 28, 1927.

The bed, embodying the principles of this invention, has for its objecttie utilization of a limited or confined space, whereby a bed whencollapsed or eleva-ted into a compact assembly may be completelyenclosed therein, and yet aord suficient room to permit full, free andunrestricted operation thereof.

Furthermore, the construction of the present bed involves a sectionalbed end, which is adapted to operate from the movement of the bed frameand thereby regulate the relative positions of the sections thereof inorder to reduce the radius of the circle defining the path of movementof the bed end when the bed is being manipulated.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be apparent, thisinvention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement ofparts, all as hereinafter more fully claimed, described and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a vertical sideelevation of the present bed illustrating.;l the bed frame lowered andextended in full lines, and elevated or collapsed in dotted lines, andthe positions assumed by the several elements when the bed frameoccupies these positions;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken along line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken along line 3 3 of Fig. 1through the recess or closet'to illustra-te a portion of the structure;and v Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view illustrating in detail thehinged connection between the sections of the bed end.

Heretofore recess beds, wherein the lowering of the bed frame causes theend thereof in the recess or closet to swing from the vertical to thehorizontal, and the raising of the frame reverses the movement of thebed et or recess to accommodate the movement or swing of the frame andsuch bed end as may be secured thereto. The present inventioncontemplates a kconstruction whereby a bed end is secured to the bedframe in such manner that it may be collapsed or folded when the bedframe is elevated, and the collapsing or folding thereof may becontrolled from the movement of the frame. Thus, a full size bed end maybe used and attached to the inner end of the bed frame and at the sametime the depth of the closet or recess may be materially reduced.

Reference being had to the drawings, designates a recess or closetopening into a room by means of a wall opening 11 adapted to be closedby the doors 12.

In carrying out the prevent invention a pair of tracks 13 are fixed tothe floor of the recess or closet 10 and extend from the rear wallthereof to the approximate plane of the outer surface of the front orroom wall containing the wall opening 11. These tracks are of angle ironand have the upright webs 14 thereof facing one another as thehorizontal webs 13 lie on the floor in spaced horizontal positions. Thehorizontal web 13 of each track is provided with aflange 15 along theedge thereof opposed to the web 14 which, at a point removed from thetrack 13, is bent inwardly toward the upright web 14 where it restsparallel to and spaced from the track 13 to form a keeper 16. The inneredge of the keeper 16 is spaced horizontally from the upright web 14 ofthe track 13 to permit the reciprocation of the bed oarriage'between itand said upright web 14 as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Cooperating with each track 13 is a horizontal angle bar 17, one arm ofwhich rests parallel to and operates flush against the upright web 14 ofthe track 13 while the other Vhorizontal arm thereof rests parallel toand upon the track 13 beneath the keeper 16. At its forward end theangle bar 17 has a right-angular verticagl extension 18. It will beobserved from Fig. 1 that the keeper 16 does not extend throughout theentire length of the track 13 but on the contrary is coeXtensive withthe inner or rear portion only of the track 13 so that the cooperatingangle bar 17 may reciprocate on the track 13 with its horizontal arm orweb between the track 13 and the keeper 16 and its vertical arm or weboperating between the edge of theckeeper 16 and the vertical web 14 ofthe track 13.

To facilitate the movement or reciprocation of Vthe angle bars 17 andtheir vertical extensions 18 with reference to the tracks 13, eachextension 18 has a bracket 19 adjoining the front face thereof, whichcarries a roller 20 bearing upon the upper surface of the cooperatingtrack 13 in advance of the angle bar 17 and its extension 18.

Thus it is apparent that each angle bar 17 is free to move inwardly onits cooperating trick 13 until its vertical extension 18 contaotslwiththe forward end of the keeper 16. This movement of the angle bar 17 isassisted by the retractile coil spring 21 interposed between thevertical extension 18 of the bar 17 and the upwardly curved arm 22formed from the rear end of the keeper 16.

These angle irons 17, together with their vertical extensions 18, arecombined to constitute a movable vcarriage for the bed, and to that endthe vertical extensions are con nocted by the horizontal angle bar 23which is riveted or otherwise secured at its ends to se front faces ofsaid vertical extensions 18. This bar 23 is so positioned that one ofits arms or webs extends horizontally in advance of the verticalextensions 18 (as shown in Fig. 1) and thereby creates a support to theunder side of which are attached the brackets 19 for the rollers 20.Thus the rollers 2O are positioned in advance ofthe carriage and belowthe horizontal bar 23 to operate on the tracks 13.

A bed frame 24 is pivoted, as at 25, to the vertical extensions 18 ofthe carriage adj oining their upper ends. The pivot 25 of the bed frame24 is somewhat removed from the end of said bed frame, whereby a portionof the frame projects beyond the extensions 18 toward the recess 10 whenthe bed frame is in Tits horizontal position. This projecting end of thebed frame 24 has an L-bracket 26 rigidly secured to each side railthereof. By

` l ends of the links 27 are pivoted to the studs 28 formed from orrigidly connected to the rear ends of the vertical arms or webs 14 ofthe tracks 13. If desired, these links 27 may be pivoted directly to therear end of the vertical arms or webs 14 of the tracks .13 in suchmanner that the pivots will in no way interfere with the movement of thehorizontal angle bars 17 forming a part of the carriage.

When the bed frame 24 occupies a vertical position with its side railsadjoining and approximately parallel to the vertical extensions 18 of acarriage, the links 27 occupy substantially horizontal positionsparallel to and adjoinlng the right-angularly projecting arms of thebrackets 26 carried by the bed frame. As the bed frame 24 is lowered,the studs 28 of the links 27 being ixed cause the links to exert apushing force upon the bed frame 24 and throughy it to the verticalextensions 18 of the carriage. This pushing force causes the carriage tomove outwardly from the rccess or closet.

Upon the elevation of the bed, i. e. upon its movement from a horizontalto a vertical position, the links 27 exert a pullinv force upon the bedframe 24 and through 1t upon vertical extension 18 of the carriage. Thispulling force by the links automatically causes the carriage to move'into the recess or closet 10 so that when the bed has reached a verticalposition, all of the elements of the installation are contained entirelywithin the said recess or closet. It will be observed that this movementof the carriage into and out of the recess or cabinet 10 isautomatically and entirely controlled from the movement of the bed withrespect to the carriage.

In order to economize the space required for the depth of the recess orcabinet 10, the end of the bed carried by the inwardly projecting end ofthe bed frame 24 and usually the head end, is made in two sections. Thelower section 29 of the head end is pivoted to the inner end of the bedframe 24 and its pivots are therefore spaced from the angles of thebrackets 26. This positioning of the pivots of the lower section 29permits the links 27 to rest flush against and parallel to the rightangularly projecting arms of the brackets 26 when the bed is elevatedand positioned within the recess or closet 10. The upper section 30 ofthe head end is pivoted to the lower section 29 by any suitable pivotconstruction. An example of such a pivot or hinge construction is astrap 30a, pivoted at one end as at 301 to the interior of thelower endsection 29 and at its opposite end, as at 3()c to the exterior of theupper end section 30. A link 31 is interposed between the lower end ofeach side of the upper section 30 and the upper extremity of theadjoining vertical extension 18 of the carriage. A similar link 32 isinterposed between each side of the upper end of the lower section 29and the cooperating vertical extension 18 of the carriage at a pointabove the bed frame 24. The connections between these links 31 and 32and their respective sections 3() and 29 of the head end and thevertical extensions 18 of the carriage are pivotal and in the cases ofthe end sections 29 and 30 constitute the respective pivots 30b and 30cby which the straps 3()aM are also pivoted to `the end sections.

When the bed is in its horizontal position as illustrated in Fig. l thesections 29 and 30 occupy the same vertical plane, one above the other,and together constitute the end of the bed. As the bed frame 24 is swungabout its pivot 25 the portion thereof projecting rearwardly beyond thevertical extensions 18 of the carriage swings downwardly. This downwardmovement o the inner end of the bed frame causes the links 3l and 32 toalso swing downwardly about the pivotal connections thereof to theextensions 18.

The joint between the sec-tions 29 and 30 of the head end is broken as aconsequence, whereby the upper section 30 occupies a substantiallyvertical position irrespective of the position of the bed frame and atthe completion of the upward movement of the bed frame, restssubstantially parallel thereto. On the other hand the lower section 29of the head end assumes a position which be said to be generallyhorizontal at the end of the upward movement of the bed trame 24 andoccupies a position at somewhat of an angle to the upper section 30.insofar as the movement of the bed frame 24e about its pivot 25 isconcerned the vertical extensions 18 constitute iixed pivots for boththe bed frame 24 and the links 3l and 32. The opposite ends of the links3l and 32 being respectively pivoted to the sections 30 and 29 of thebed trame have movable pivots. lrn this manner the swing oi' the pivotsresulting from the movement of the bed frame 2li about its pivots 25causes the sections of the head end to assume the positions heretoforedescribed when the bed is elevated and contained within tl e recess orcloset l0.

Reversely, when the bed is lowered from its vertical position within therecess or closet l to assume a. horizontal position in the room, themovement of the bed relative to the extensions 18 of the carriage causesthe links 3l and 32 to swing about their fixed pivots to graduallyelevate the sections 30 and 29 until they occupy the same vertical planeand constitute a head of the bed.

By reference to Fig. l of the drawings, it is manifest that when the bedframe ca ries the usual springs and mattress, these clemsnts will bepositioned between the upper section 30 of the head end and the bedtrame 24 and that the upper section 30 will rest parallel and close tothe mattress carried by the bed frame 24;. A consideration of Fig. l ofthe drawings will also demonstrate that the bed when elevated orcontained within the closet or recess l0, requires a space not greatlyexceeding the combined thickness of the head end, mattress, springs andthe bed frame 24. The movement of the head end of the bed within thecloset or recess is confined within these limits. That is to say, uponthe lowering of thebed frame 24 lto assume a horizontal position, theupper section moves upwardly and outwardly in subn stantially a verticalposition while the lower section 29 moves upwardly and outwardly and atthe same time gradually assumes a vertical position at right angles tothe bed frame 2l and in the same Lvertical plane as the upper section30.

The lower section 29 carries the bars 33 which whenv the hed is elevatedacts as a support for the elements carried by the bed fra-me21lsuch asthe springs and mattress particularly the latter. f

To assist in elevating the bed, the angle bar 34, interposed between theside rails oli the frame 24- to the rear of the pivots 25 between it andthe vertical extensions i3 oiC the carriage, acts as an anchor for the'upper ends of the counterbalance coil springs 35. The lower ends ofthese springs are anchored to the vertical web oic the horizontal anglebar 23 connecting the vertical extensions l8 to form the carriage.

From the foregoing it is apparent thatl the bed may be collapsed andfolded into a closet of extremely shallow depth asrccmpared to therecesses or closets required for the prior beds and in addition theretomay be automatically moved from the closet for occupancy and use.

il? hat is claimed is l. The combination with a support,'of a bed framepivot-ed thereto, a sectional bed end cooperating with the frame,connections between the sections of said end whereby they may moverelatively and a connection between each section of the bed end and saidsupport whereby the movement or the frame causes a relative movement ofthe said sections.

2. The combination with a support, of a bed :trame pivoted thereto, abed end section pivoted to said fra-me, a second bed end section hingedthereto, and independent connections between the support and each oisaid end sections for the movement thereof upon the movement of thefra-me.

3. rlhe combination with a. support, of a bed frame pivoted thereto, anend section hinged to the end of the frame, a second end section hingedtothe rst, and connections between the sections and the support where bythe sections move relatively to each other and to the frame upony themovement of the latter relatively to the support.

4. The combination with a support, of a bed frame pivoted thereto, anend section hinged to said frame, a second end section hinged to thefirst, a link connecting the iirst section to the support and a secondlink connecting the second section to the support.

5. The combination with a support, of a bed frame so pivoted thereonthat a portion 4- Lssaeeo of the support extends beyond its pivot, asectional bed end pivoted to said trame, the sections thereof beingpivoted one to the other and a link connecting each section of l the bedend to the extending portion of the Support. Y

6. The combination with a support,rof a bed frame mounted for movementrelative thereto, an end section carried by said bed ID frame made up ofa plurality of sections, one pivoted to the other and to the bed frame,and connections between each section of the bed end and said support.

7. In, a bed the combination with a supll port, of a bed frame pivotedthereto to rest either horizontally or vertically, a bed end movablycarried by said frame and compris-4 ing a plurality of connected,relatively mov-v able sections, and means connecting the secn tionsindividually to the support whereby the end sections assume coplanarpositions at substantial right angles to the frame when locatedhorizontally and when the frame moves to a vertical position one of theend sections occupies a position atan acute angle to the frame and theremaining section rests rallel to the frame. 8. In a bed the combinationwith a support, of a bed frame pivoted thereto to rest I eitherhorizontaliy or vertically, a bed end movably carried by said frame andcomprising a p urelity of connected, relatively movable sections andmeans comprising links connecting the individual sections to the supllport whereby the movement of the frame from vertical to horizontalpositions causes the end sections to assume coplanar positions atsubstantial right angles to the frame and the movement of the frame fromhori- 40 zontal to vertical positions causes the end sections to assumepositions parallel and at acute angles to the frame.

9. n a bed the combination with a support, of a bed frame pivotedthereto to rest i either horizontally or vertically, a bed end movablycarried by said frame and comprising a plurality of connected,relatively movable sections and means operating between the several endsections and the support l whereby the movement of the frame relativelycauses the end sections to collapse as the frame assumes a verticalposition and to become coplanar and at right angles to the frame as thelatterk assumes a horizontal p0- sition.

ROSS J. ELLSWORTH.

